Between 1994-2005, the Stanford Alpine Archaeology Project surveyed and excavated
Roman, Celtic and Medieval contexts in the Grand St. Bernard pass, including a Roman
Mansio-Refuge in the Plan de Barasson, Switzerland, the Temple of Jupiter and a Late
Roman Watch Tower in the Plan de Jupiter, Italy, Celtic traces in Bourg-St-Pierre,
Switzerland, and the Medieval Contexts of the Monastery Hospice of the Grand-St-Bernard
in Switzerland. We have discovered many features including high altitude Roman quarries,
wolf-chewed bones of barbarians crossing the pass around 500 CE, Celtic, Roman and
Langobard coins, many distinctive Roman and Gallo-Roman ceramics, jewelry, glass and
related artifacts as well as reconstructed the ancient medieval monastic contexts inside the
Grand St Bernard Monastery, among many other fascinating facets of a high altitude project
in the Alps where it can snow any day of the year.